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Writing>Improving Sentences

Part or all of the following sentence is underlined;beneath the sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material.Select the option that produces the best sentence.If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives,select choice A.

Africa is not nearly so mountainous as in Asia.

(A) so mountainous as in
(B) that mountainous as
(C) equally mountainous to
(D) as mountainous as
(E) that mountainous as in

答案和解析

答案：D

解析：

Choice (D) is correct. It avoids the awkwardness of the original by using the idiomatic "as … as" construction to compare "Africa" with "Asia."